Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-11
OUR CATTLE QUEENS.
EIGHT HUNDRED OF THEM RAISING
HERDS IN COLORADO.
Refined, Intelligent Women, They Sue
cessfulIy Look After Their Own In
terests-A Denver Reporters Chat with
a Prominent CattIemap

PrsyaIinent Cattieman.
Are you personally acquainted with many
women engaged in the business of cattle rails
mg| asked the reporter
The cattleman gave long whistle.
Well. | should think SC" he said. "rve
studied them for years You want to know
what kind OF women they are? rll TIL you
what sort they are, young man; they're
iatlieS, that's what they are Now, | don't
mean by that that they would I've afraid Of
soiling their hands if occasion required; no,
indeed; nor of doing Charitable action
which would neceSsitate some personal ex-
pOSure on their part, for they are generous to
y fault. What | mean to say is, that they
are as rule refined and intelligent women,
who read and think and are capable of max
ing Il good appearance in society. | don't
know as have ever seen one of them who is
pheiomenally intellectual, outside of the
Judgment they exercise in the stock business,
which is phenome al Most of them have
genius for business and nine-tenths of them
know how to appear Ill drawing room.
an most instances they are rich and know
well how to use their money to advantage so
as to get the most good out of life. Many of
them are wives and mothers, and when they
are such ! assure you they are both wise and
kind. You will find that they rule their
households with firm hands, and that their
husbands and children, to use the biblical ex-'
pression rise up and call them blessed
stock women are much like others, save
that they have wider Judgment on practical
subjects They are thoroughly businesshke,
because they appreciate the vast interests
which they have at stake, and the quick con
ception with which all women are gifted
enables them to sec clearly what the iueyi
| table results would he of one false move.
They know that their decisions must be well
| weighed, that they must act only under tho
| most careful consideration, and that once
having acted they must abile by their de
| cision with calm, unswerving spirit. 1t is
| a good training school for woman. 1t
| takes all that idiotic no',sense about nerves
| out of her and gives her brain cool, COM
| mon sense poise which many man might
| envy.
| GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES
| "l know of no position in life which had
rather my daughters would fill. 1t is one
| buidened with great responsibilities, of
course, but what mode Of life is not where
| there Is anything to be cainedi ! assure you
| | should not consider that clear understand
ing of the cattle business interfered in any
way with the refinement OF those whom
hold most dear"
But YOU have doubtless met stock women
OF directly opposite class, have you notF
"Oh, YES; there are necessarily exceptions
| to all rules The uncouth woman of the
ranch, who rounds up her own herds and who
sleeps in the saddle, is not altogether creature
of the imagination. Uncouth and ignorant
she may he, but she is always good woman,
and one whom all the cowboys respect.
| know several instances where the women can
swing a lariat like a man, and know quite
| well how to manage a herd. A very few OF
them personally supervise their own animals
however, and these, i'll most instances, art
those who have not as Vet accumulated much
wealth, although there are some very rich
| cattle women i'll Colorado who ride after theil
own herds. A woman usually manages hel
cattle through a foreman, whom she otter
supplies with brain power. She does moi
usually live on the ranch, but rather in
| handsome house in some neighborIng town
| But, all the same, she i the bone and sinev
oi the business Her clear head manages i
| all, and it is through her directions that hel
foreman always proceeds She often spend
the summer on the ranch where a comfort
able dwelling is fitted up for her, much on tn
order of an English shooting box
NOT EASILY WON
@You want 10 know something about tn
unmarried women who '.;c great stock raiseIs
We'll. the main thing that can be said 70
Of aud
evoiywhrre want to marry them, not purel
out of money considelHtions either, for som
OF thas unmarried stock " omen have a fun
of good sense and usciul intelligence " hic
cannot he eclipsed. and lesiie this, many q
| them are quite accomplished and good looI
| ine. But few OF them nre past their you'll
| and they have a sirewd way of looking q
things, which augurs Ill fer the stranger VII
looks with longing eyes upon their fiocks an
herds.
Colorado women generally have gone int
| the stock business" concluded the cattlemaI
Through direct line of inheritance--that i
, | they have inherited either small herds, va
ones. or taste and mcliuation for the life.
4 | know of numerous INSTANCES where a faith,
has died leaving his daughter very sma
herd and she has gone steadily on with j
] making thousands where her father befo
i her made hundreds of dollars Again, the
are widows who have come into possession
vast stock interests through the death of the
! husbands, aid who have managed the bu'
| ness left to them until the receipts run ava
| up in the millions
Il know re,olute women too, who begt
without a dollar, and who have gained veal
\ and standing in the stock business The me
, highly novel sight l ever saw was IA yea
old girl herdinG cattle away up iii Montan
i with only her little brother to assist her I
H. father of these two children had died, leavii
rk them a small herd of cattle, aud / would
willing to wager my last dollar that that lit
brown skinned girl away mp there in tn
ne w1lderntss will Yet count her dollars
lg thousands Of the 500 stock women M
Is doing business in Colorado, all are well a
nj favorably known among cattle and she
e. men, any one of whom would gladly befrie
n them IN case of ali emergency, but whom,
the other hand, they are quite capable OF {
vi,ing IN many practicable matters relati
\ to stock raising Denver Republican.